On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 26, 2009, at 14:30, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> The 20% larger doesn't tell the whole story, Australia is fairly compact, >> Canada contains some large areas of open sea... >> > > I would wager that the "square mileage" numbers try not to include open sea > as part of the calculated area. Tricky math, to be sure.... but it seems > that it would be cheating to include non-land as part of the land area in > the numbers. > > -Charles >
Official numbers include territorial waters (lakes, rivers and waters within the 12 mile limit or wholely enclosed). Canada has an unusually large amount of said waters, around 800,000km2 due to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes and the norther islands. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
